It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
JULES VERNEAn energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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